Oct. 17, 2016, 6:46 p.m.

There's not much of a mystery what happened here: Some folks who should've known better got hoaxed by a rando from the Internet.

Let's start from the beginning, with the culprit.

On his profile, the anonymous Twitter user @randygdub (who says he is a man) calls himself "the cool and chill guy of online." What he is, more accurately, is an adherent of Weird Twitter – a surrealist style of Twitter humor known for fake anecdotes, lefty politics and copious trolling.

Oct. 17, 2016, 7:09 p.m.

Melania Trump, a rare figure on the campaign trail, said she believed the media and Hillary Clinton's campaign were working together to launch false sexual misconduct allegations against her husband, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

“My husband is kind and he’s a gentleman and he would never do that,” Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday. “Everything was organized and put together to hurt him, to hurt his candidacy.”

Asked whether she believed the Clintons and the media were working together, Trump replied, “Yes, of course.”

In the world of real estate, the Trump name is a symbol of opulence and daring.

It's a name stamped on buildings in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas in the U.S. In cities around the world, including Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul and Mumbai, Donald Trump has licensed his brand to other developers.

In 1990, Trump vowed to build the tallest building in the world in Los Angeles on the site of the once-glamorous Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard.

Oct. 17, 2016, 2:57 p.m.

Melania Trump, the wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, took to the airwaves Monday to defend her husband over sexually aggressive language he used to describe women in a 2005 recording that recently became public.

It’s the first time Melania Trump has spoken publicly since the recording emerged on Oct. 7, in which Donald Trump used vulgar language to describe women and said he could kiss and grope them without their consent because of his celebrity.

Saying her husband had been “egged on” by Billy Bush, the then-host of "Access Hollywood," Melania Trump said she found the language offensive but dismissed it as “boy talk.”

Oct. 17, 2016, 9:24 p.m.

After Donald Trump hinted that he thinks Hillary Clinton is on drugs, the White House fired back Monday in kind -- with the same sort of oblique, maybe-maybe not accusation that now characterizes the presidential campaign.

"You’re telling me the candidate who snorted his way through the first two debates is accusing the other candidate of taking drugs?" White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said. "That’s a curious development in the campaign."

Trump didn't come right out and say he thought Clinton was high at their last debate. He just said he thinks there ought to be a drug test before the next one.

Oct. 17, 2016, 2:20 p.m.

Donald Trump’s frequent appearances on Howard Stern’s radio show have repeatedly come back to haunt the GOP presidential nominee, with his rating scale for women’s appearances, his sex life and his position on the Iraq war all fodder for election-season discussion.

Now, the shock jock is speaking out for the first time about Trump, the role his radio show has played in the campaign and the controversial statements Trump made about women.

Stern, a Democrat, said he wasn’t replaying his interviews with Trump because to do so would be a “betrayal.”